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Final Exam Rehash PARTICIPAL • A word or phrase containing a verb that functions in a sentence as an adjective • [email protected] • Office hours: Tues AM/Wed PM • Late passes • Remediation • Plagiarism • HOMEWORK! Class Behavior Policy Class Expectations Unacceptable Behaviors Follow the UBP Talking about extra-curricular things once Do not speak while I or another student are class has started speaking Talking about other teachers/classes once Be an active, respectful participant class has started Write down everything that is written on the Doing homework for another class, under any board circumstances. (If I see it, I will confiscate it). Write down the smart comments that your Leaving your seat/the class without permission classmates make Doodling/drawing/sketching either on your Follow along in your text during read aloud paper or body and discussion Using your device without direct instructions to Annotate your text do so Always complete the reading due, and turn in Plagiarism of any kind assignments on time Ask for help when you need it A. To publicly accuse 1.____C__ Deterrent B. Easy to teach the correct way to do something 2.__AC___ Circumspect 3.___AE__ Linguistics C. Something that scares us away from a certain task or place 4.___A__ Denounce D. Consisting of or measured in money 5.__AD___ Visionary E. Generous in forgiving great insult or injury 6.__BC___ Ad hoc AB. Unjustified glory, pride, and boastfulness 7.___B___ Docile 8.__E___ Magnanimous AC. Watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent 9.___AB__ Vainglory AD. A person who thinks about or plans for the future with imagination or wisdom. 10.___D___ Pecuniary AE. The scientific study of language and its structure. BC. Moving toward a particular end without consideration of wider application 11. Tiresias AE A. Gives Odysseus a bag of wind 12. Polyphemus, the cyclops DE B. Nymph who detained Odysseus for 7 13. Aeolus, God of Wind A years on Ogygia C. Drugged Odysseus’ men with a flower 14. Circe AC D. Cannibals 15. Scylla CE E. Undoes her weaving every night 16. Lotus Eaters C AB. Owner of cattle eaten by Odysseus’ 17. Laistrygonians D men 18. Calypso B AC. Turns men into swine AD. Goes on a journey to visit Nestor 19. Elpenor BC and Menelaus 20. Helios, God of the Sun AB AE. Blind prophet 21. Helen BE BC. Drunk, fell from Circe’s roof BD. Recognizes the scar on Odysseus’ 22. Antinous ABC leg 23. Sirens CD BE. Face that launched 1000 ships 24. Eurycleia BD CD. Singing fish-bird women 25. Telemachus AD CE. Many-headed monster 26. Penelope E DE. Son of Poseidon ABC. Most Arrogant Suitor Athena’s (27) C seagrey eyes glinted as she said: A. Noun B. Verb “I’ll tell you nothing but the unvarnished truth. I am Mentes, son of Anchialus, and proud of it. I am C. Adjective also captain of the seafaring Taphians. D. Adverb I just pulled in with my ship and my crew, E. Preposition Sailing the deep purple to foreign (28) A ports. AB. Conjunction We’re on our way to Cyprus (29) E with a cargo of iron AC. Pronoun To trade for copper. My ship is standing AD. Interjection Offshore of (30) C wild country away from the city, In Rheithron harbor (31) E under Neion’s woods. (32) AC You and I have ties of hospitality, Just as our fathers did, from a long way back. Go and (33) B ask old Laertes. They say he (34) D never Comes to town any more, lives out in the country, A hard life with just an old woman to help him. She gets him his food (35) AB and drink when he comes in From the fields, all worn out from trudging across The ridge of his (36) C vineyard plot. A. Participle B. Preposition C. Gerund Phrase Phrase al Phrase __A___ 37. I’ll tell you nothing but the unvarnished truth. __A___ 38. I am also captain of the seafaring Taphians. __A____ 39. I just pulled in with my ship and crew, sailing the deep purple to foreign ports. __C___ 40. He comes in from the fields all worn out from trudging across the ridge of his vineyard plots. ___B__ 41. You and I have ties of hospitality, just as our fathers did, a long way back. 42.When did Homer create the Iliad and the 43. Where does the primary action of The Iliad Odyssey? and The Odyssey take place in modern day A. 1000 BCE geography? B. 850 BCE A. Turkey C. 2700 BCE B. Iran D. 12th Century BCE C. Syria D. Saudi Arabia 44. Which of the following themes unites both 45. What is xenia? "Iliad" and "Odyssey"? A. Wrath of the gods A. The kindness of strangers B. Excessive pride B. The exemplary leadership of Achilles C. A code of Greek hospitality C. The strength of the Greek city-state D. The specific meter used by the rhapsodes D. Characters’ hubris in thinking themselves superior to the gods 46. Which god has hindered Odysseus’ journey 47. Which of the following is NOT an example of home? epithet? A. Poseidon 1.Earthshaker B. Athena 2.Grey-eyed Athena 3.Eurynome, the housekeeper C. Aphrodite 4.Godlike Odysseus D. Zeus 48. Which of the Olympian gods watches over 49. All of the following is a characteristic of the Odysseus and his son Telemachus during his long ancient epic poem EXCEPT: absence from home? 1.Writing on tablets and parchment 1.Apollo 2.Catalogs, Lists, epithets 2.Dionysus 3.The Oral Tradition 3.Demeter 4.Epic Simile and extended metaphor 4.Athena 50. Which of the following is not an essential 51. Which of the following is an example of in medias understanding for Homer’s Odyssey? res? 1.Epic heroes are both heroic and flawed, and reflect 1.The gods make Odysseus’ journey home difficult. the culture from which they come 2.“Owl-eyed Athena” 2.Homer’s epic poems were not discovered until 3.The expectation that guests are shown hospitality. thousands of years after they were written. 4.The Odyssey begins in the middle of Odysseus’ 3.Epic poems reveal universal truths about the human journey home. condition 4.Literature and the culture that produces it are intrinsically intertwined 52. Writing a 20-page paper in a single night was a laborious undertaking. 53. Although the mother was constantly harassing and criticizing the oldest child, the youngest boy received laudatory encouragement. 54. The group of people remonstrated the policy passed by Congress because they thought it was unfair. 55. Running can be both curative and deleterious to the human body; It is great for fitness, but the constant pounding of the pavement takes its toll on knees and other joints. 56. Log entries are not meant to be punitive; they are just meant to record behavior and provide data.. Characterization • Each box was out of 5 points • Needed to have: – An answer to the question (i.e. a character trait) – A quote from the text supporting the answer you chose – An explanation of how the quote supports your answer Characterization Exemplar • “The character trait that best represents Circe is clever. We can see this trait most in Book 10. Homer writes, “and she came out and flung open the bright doors and invited them in…when they had eaten and drunk, she struck them with her wand” (10.247-256). This quote shows Circe abusing xenia to lure the sailors in before striking them with her wand to turn them into pigs.” Passage Identification • Out of 5 points per box • Needed to have: – CONTEXT including WHO is talking to WHOM and WHEN in the story the quote occurs. – An explanation of the significance of the passage: what new information is revealed and what effect does this passage have on the plot Passage 1: Telemachus is talking to Please don’t take offense if I Athena in this passage from speak my mind. Book 1. He is talking about It’s easy for them to enjoy the the suitors, who have been harper’s song, violating the code of Xenia by Since they are eating another overstaying their welcome in man’s stores his home and “eating another Without paying anything—the man’s stores without paying stores of a man anything.” It is significant Whose white bones lie rotting because it shows Telemachus’ in the rain. frustration with the suitors, and it also shows that he believes his father to be dead. Passage 2: This passage is from Book 9. I always expected a great hero Just before this passage, Would come here, strong as Polyphemus killed some can be. crewman, leading Odyssues Now this puny, little, good-for- and his crew to get nothing runt Polyphemus drunk and stab Has put my eye out—because him in the eye. Odysseus he got me drunk. made the mistake of telling But come here, Odysseus, so I the Cyclops his name, and can give you a gift, now Polypheums can tell And ask Poseidon to help you Poseidon about him. This on your way. passage is significant because I’m his son, you know. He Polyphemus wants to give claims he’s my father. Odysseus a “gift”which is really a curse that will prevent Odysseus from reaching home quickly. Passage 3: In this passage from Book 11, Leave these unharmed, keep Tiresias is warning Odysseus your mind on your not to eat the Cattle of the homecoming, Sun when he reaches them. And you may still reach Ithaca, He foretells their doom if they though not without pain.
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